Spanish police have seized more than 800kg of cocaine hidden in a fake Dakar Rally truck.
The massive drugs haul - worth more than £30 million in street value - was found last Friday in the Spanish port of Bilbao, after the mock-up Dakar rally truck landed on a ship from Argentina.
It turns out that the seven suspects - part of one of the main drug trafficking rings based in Ibiza - had gone to great lengths to disguise the truck as a pukka Dakar competitor.
"The vehicle had been totally transformed to adapt it to its supposed participation in the competition as a support truck, with publicity and logos of the event painted on its side," the police statement said.
"The drug trafficking ring even provided the vehicle with all the necessary technical and logistical material, including the official uniform of the competition."
The truck was originally shipped to Argentina and loaded with its illicit cargo on a farm near Buenos Aires on one of the Dakar stages (the competition was held in January in Chile and Argentina).
As well as the cocaine, police also seized 15,000 ecstasy tablets, 4.5kg of hash, two guns and almost 47,000 euros in cash.
